John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.
~By Kaley Cuoco ~
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
~By Fawn M. Brodie ~
When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
~By William H. Hunt ~
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
~By Mary Garden ~
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.
~By Peter Drucker ~
I want to attract the best people into teaching.
~By Charles Schumer ~
The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
~By Bobby Orr ~
I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.
~By Frederick Reines ~
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
~By John Carmack ~
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
~By Paul Rodriguez ~
Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
~By Earl Butz ~
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
~By Gail Godwin ~
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
~By William Glasser ~
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
~By Al Jourgensen ~
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
~By Shelley Berman ~
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
~By Harriet Martineau ~
I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.
~By Diane Cilento ~
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
~By Origen ~
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
~By Simeon Poisson ~
The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
~By A. J. Liebling ~
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~By Aristotle ~
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
~By Fred W. Friendly ~
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.
~By Rick Santorum ~
Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.
~By Red Buttons ~
I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.
~By Ike Turner ~
I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.
~By Louise Fletcher ~
Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.
~By John Cameron ~
Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
~By John Clayton ~
If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
~By Jim DeMint ~
We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.
~By King Hussein I ~
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
~By John Sexton ~
What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?
~By William P. Leahy ~
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
~By William Bennett ~
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
~By Jim Harrison ~
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
~By William Faulkner ~
Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.
~By Richard King ~
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
~By Cat Stevens ~
I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.
~By John Engler ~
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
~By Manuel Puig ~
I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.
~By Ike Turner ~
Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.
~By Antony Hewish ~
From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.
~By Rex Hunt ~
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
~By A. Bartlett Giamatti ~
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
~By John Steinbeck ~
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
~By Shelley Berman ~
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
~By Charles Schumer ~
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
~By John Milton ~
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
~By Bill Hybels ~
By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
~By William P. Leahy ~
It's not the teaching, it's the learning.
~By Sly Stone ~
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
~By Laurie Lee ~
I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
~By Margaret Mead ~
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
~By Shannon Miller ~
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
~By William C. Bryant ~
Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.
~By Thomas Becket ~
That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category.
~By Martin Sheen ~
My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.
~By George Stigler ~
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
~By Ali Hoseini Khamenei ~
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
~By Margaret Whiting ~
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
~By Albert Ellis ~
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.
~By Clarence Thomas ~
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
~By Charles Schumer ~
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~By Anatole France ~
You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
~By Oscar Robertson ~
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
~By Al Green ~
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
~By Aly Khan ~
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
~By John W. Gardner ~
Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
~By Sally Schneider ~
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
~By Stephen Carter ~
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
~By Franz Boas ~
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
~By David Eddings ~
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